Vulnerability PYSEC-2026-3853

Medium Risk
MEDIUM RISK
CVSS Score: 5.3
Score Range: 4.0–6.9
Medium severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 4.0–6.9). Important issues that meaningfully reduce security confidence.
19 days ago
September 10, 2026 at 09:44 AM UTC
JupyterHub has Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Unbounded Username Logging on Failed Login
0.1.0 - 5.4.6
0.1.0 - 5.4.6

Summary

JupyterHub has Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Unbounded Username Logging on Failed Login

Details

Impact

Invalid input to login resulted in unbounded logging output. Only form-based Authenticators (the default PAM Authenticator, but not the more widely used OAuthenticator) are affected.

Patches

Upgrade to 5.5.0.

Workarounds

Use an Authenticator that doesn't use a login form, such as OAuthenticator.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
19 days ago
September 10, 2026 at 09:44 AM UTC
Fixed (5.5.0)
3 months ago
June 10, 2026 at 09:12 PM UTC
Last Modified
2 hours ago
September 29, 2026 at 10:10 AM UTC